I think I just realized that planning and getting tattoos is my therapy for these absolute insane times.
I went 20 yrs between my first and second and now actively planning my fifth, sixth, and seventh ... with several more ideas percolating.
Posts by AC, PhD
Happy First Contact Day ๐ From TrekCulture & Friends!
#StarTrek #FirstContactDay
Image of a single serve pizza and bread sticks from Rocky Rococo restaurant.
A frequent lunch stop when living back home in WI.
I miss those bread sticks!
Itโs the 60th Anniversary of the end of the poll tax. So of course, Republicans want to bring it back. Read a little history & the language the Court used to leave no doubt about laws that use a poll tax to interfere with the right to vote. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days.
A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIPโ a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passportโ both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
Wow, excellent episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy this week. It's quickly becoming a top series for me and can't wait to see more ๐
Holding institutions accountable and wanting them to do better is not the same as delighting in their demise.
Plus, yes, social media is a cesspool but sometimes it's the only way the unfiltered truth can get out.
Pro-life my ass
A screenshot of the current temperature in Cincinnati, OH. It's -14ยฐC and mostly cloudy.
Opposite end of the extreme here. And supposed to get colder ๐ฅถ
Stay safe!
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The United States was the gold standard for science and technology for decades, and there was never any reason that had to end.
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
I ... I didn't know what this means ๐ซฃ
in the pit
This entire weekend
Not to mention, WTH is with that song! I get the world is a total dumpster fire but there's definitely a better way to use that in your holiday ad.
Targeted machine learning is a better phrase here than "AI". It has been used in science for awhile now - without the environmental impacts of GenAI, which is trash.
Between the rising costs and AI crammed into all of them - that'll be a no from me.
We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
Just donated to my local food bank and fortunate to have an employer matching program to maximize the donation.
Check to see if you have a similar program!
give.freestorefoodbank.org/campaign/716...
lmao
So comforting as I'm sitting in an airport!